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| Title |
Characteristics and treatment outcomes of tuberculosis patients who “transfer-in” to health facilities in Harare City, Zimbabwe: a descriptive cross-sectional study
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, November 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-12-981 |
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| Authors |
Kudakwashe C Takarinda, Anthony D Harries, Tsitsi Mutasa-Apollo, Charles Sandy, Owen Mugurungi |
| Abstract |
Zimbabwe is among the 22 Tuberculosis (TB) high burden countries worldwide and runs a well-established, standardized recording and reporting system on case finding and treatment outcomes. During TB treatment, patients transfer-out and transfer-in to different health facilities, but there are few data from any national TB programmes about whether this process happens and if so to what extent. The aim of this study therefore was to describe the characteristics and outcomes of TB patients that transferred into Harare City health department clinics under the national TB programme. Specific objectives were to determine i) the proportion of a cohort of TB patients registered as transfer-in, ii) the characteristics and treatment outcomes of these transfer-in patients and iii) whether their treatment outcomes had been communicated back to their respective referral districts after completion of TB treatment. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 102 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 16 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 10 | 10% |
| Other | 8 | 8% |
| Other | 18 | 17% |
| Unknown | 26 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 33 | 31% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 5% |
| Unspecified | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 10 | 10% |
| Unknown | 31 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 December 2012.
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#18,320,524
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#12,767
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#136,106
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#241
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